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SNOW LOADEB. AND BUMPER. No. 257,559. Patented May 9, '1882.

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J AMES DAVIES, OF MITCHELL, DAKOTA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN M. WASHBURN AND EDVARD O. GUBREY, OF SAME PLACE.

SNOW LOADER AND BUMPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,559, dated May 9, 1882.

Application filed December 31, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES DAVIES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mitchell, in the county of Davison and Territory of Da- 5 kota, have invented a new and useful Snow Loading and Dumping Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a snow loader and dumper, and relates to improvements in machines for I removing snow from cuts or other places where it may accumulate on lines of railroads. The object is to speedily and economically remove accumulations of snow from railroad-tracks. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated I in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a detailed view, in perspective, of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the machine. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the front and shovel with snow-plow set up on the platforms. Fig.4. are the shafts around which the chains used in operating the machines are wound.

My invention is a platform-car built for the purpose, with a shovel-front, A, (see Fig. 1,)

2 5 sloping forward from a front cross-timber, B, for the purpose of raising the snow upon the platform of the car.

Immediately back of the cross-timber B, to which the shovel A is attached, the platform 0 is divided along the middle lengthwise, making two platforms, 0 O, which are hung upon shafts or hinges fastened upon and resting upon timbers D, which shall extend the length of the platforms 0 G on either side on the outer 5 side of the wheels of the trucks, and with the upper side on a level, or nearly so, with the tops of the wheels, thus placing the divided and movable platforms 0 C as close as practicable to the top of the wheels.

Side boards or partitions, S, are placed on the inner sides of the platforms (3 C. At the rear end of these platforms is a timber crossing the car, upon which a cross-partition, E, is located for the purpose of protecting the machinery placed behind said partition for the purpose of operating the machine. From a point back of the crosspartition E starts for ward a timber, F, which, passing through said partition, terminates at a point immediately or about over themiddle of the divided platforms (No model.)

C O. In the end of this timber F are fixed pulleys G, and from the inner sides of the divided platforms are chains H, passing up and over the said pulleys and down the upper side of said timber F to a cross-shaft, I, (see Fig. 4,) which is located behind the crosspartit-ion It.

From points on the front and outside edges of the cross-partition E are fixed on hinges timbers or sides J, extending forward the length ofthe divided platforms C C, to the front ends of which timbers or sides Ja cross-piece, K,is fixed,the timbers or sides and cross-piece described being operated by raising'and lowering for the purpose of breaking through the snow and holding the same upon the car. At a point forward of the front end of the timber F a cross-piece, L, passes for the purpose of stiffening the timbers or sides J and furnish ing a convenient place at which to attach a chain, which passes over a pulley fixed in a block, N, on the top of and at the end of the timber F, and thence downward to ashaft, 0, (see Fig. 4,) around which the chain is wound in raising and lowering this part of the machine. This part of the machine may he removed when its use is not required.

Upon the front cross-timber, B, are fixed upright stakes P, for the purpose of dividing the snow in entering a drift. They are fixed on the cross-timber in such a manner as to be removed when not necessary.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, showing the operation of one of the divided and tilting platforms O 0, both of which operate in the same manner. I) D are the timbers on which the platforms 0 O are hung; R R, the shafts or hinges on which they turn.

Fig. 3 is the front of the cur, upon which is mounted a plow,Q, for the purpose of throwing aside the snow when the car is running go where it has not accumulated sufficiently to make it necessary to haul it away.

The car embodying the whole machine, as shown in Fig. 1, is operated by a locomotiveengine.

This snow loader and dumper cuts a width sufficiently wide to permit the passage of the widest car or coach that is or may he built. In addition to its use asasnow loaderand dumper, it is also claimed for this invention that the I00 7 principles may be useful and may be applied in the construction of gravel-cars or cars for the transportation of any material of a character that may be unloaded by the operation of the platforms, as specified herein.

Being aware that prior to myinvention herein set forth snow-plows have been made such as I place upon the forward end of the machine herein described, and that the trucks I use under the same are similar to such as have been used heretofore,.I do not therefore claim such a combination, broadly and entirely; nor do I claim any special plan of building the car, nor the application ofthe power in operatin g the machine or in the power that operates it; nor do 1 confine myself to any particular application of power whereby this machine may be operated or driven; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a snow loading and dumping car, the combination, with a pivoted platform, 0, raised and lowered by chains H, secured to the center of the cross-beams of the platform and passing through the rigid brace-piece F, of a breaker consisting of the beams J J, hinged to the shield E and actuated by a chain, M, passing over a roller supported on the rigid brace-piece F, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a snow-car, as described, the combination of the pivoted platform -pieces 0, the breaker-frame J J, pivoted to the shield E, and moving on each side of the brace F, said brace provided with pulleys for the passage of chains H M, actuating the platform and breaker-frame, and the plow A, cutters P, and inclosing-shield E, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES DAVIES. YVitnesses:

W. S. REYNOLDS, O. R. BETTS. 

